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Coaching College Freshmen So They Don’t Drop Out
by Alison Damast
The odds were stacked against Selene Mendez when she enrolled at California State University’s Monterey Bay campus in 2010. She’d moved to the U.S. from Mexico when she was 7 and her father was a migrant farmworker. Her high school guidance counselor seemed to think she’d follow in the footsteps of her older sister and brother, who had dropped out of college in their freshman years. “She told me I wasn’t college material,” Mendez says. “It got me angry.”
Determined to prove the counselor wrong, Mendez participated in a program that helps freshmen stay focused on their… Continue reading
A Role for Teachers: They’re Not Disappearing
On Wednesday, the Education Innovation Summit that I had previously discussed relative to blended learning ended with several presenters, including former Governor Jeb Bush, discussing the need for change. The role for teachers can change for the better, but only if we make some other critical changes: harnessing technology, altering teacher education, and accepting a real role for the for-profit sector of the education industry.
One question being addressed was – What will be the role for teachers? Will demand for teachers decline? John Katzman, founder of The Princeton Review and Executive Chairman of 2tor, forecast a… Continue reading
Useful New Book Offers Inspiration, Guidance to Finish that Degree — Affordably
According to recent sobering statistics, more than 50 million working-age Americans have some college but no degree.*
Courageous Learning: Finding a New Path through Higher Education (John Ebersole and William Patrick; Hudson Whitman/ECP) may help. The book is aimed squarely at working-age Americans with no degree, and was written to guide adults—whose financial and time constraints differ from traditional campus-bound students—to finish their degree at accredited institutions.
Dr. Ebersole, president of Excelsior College and a leading advocate for adult degree completion said, “Courageous Learning was written to demonstrate options, and to show that a student can finish a degree… Continue reading
A Bachelor’s Degree for $10,000
By Daniel de Vise
Excelsior College has rolled out a program that guarantees a bachelor’s degree for $10,000. Excelsior is a nonprofit college in Albany that specializes in helping students finish their degrees by cobbling together past credits, online coursework and course-credit exams. Here’s how it works: Excelsior specializes in credit-by-examination: students complete coursework and then sit for an Excelsior College Examination that measures their knowledge in the subject, similar to the College Board’s College Level Exam Program. College president John Ebersole notes that the free online courses come from the likes of MIT via the “open courseware” movement. “This… Continue reading
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Tagged budget, cost of education, online education, persistence, Student success
Five resolutions to succeed in college
Many college students spent their winter break with friends and family, and are returning to campus more committed and energized. But far too many others are not.
For these students, winter break exacerbates doubts about the school they selected and highlights their frustration with college. This is particularly true of first-year students, as half of all students who drop out do so within their first year. Many of the students who are not succeeding may already be contemplating taking a break from college. Unfortunately, the vast majority of those who take a temporary break join the 43 percent of… Continue reading
